IPCC report: Climate solutions exist, but humanity has to break from the status quo and embrace innovation |
Boris Johnson to face MPs over partygate – but what is ‘misleading parliament’ and why is it so serious? |
PMP Today ☕️ 20 March 2023 |
Windsor framework: Why Rishi Sunak was able to secure the Brexit deal that others couldn’t |
Investigation reveals millions wasted on unusable COVID tests |
Russia and Ukraine reach agreement on Black Sea Grain Initiative |
The real cancel culture is Tory cancel culture |
Don’t trust the news media? That’s good |
Silicon Rainbow |
Sue Gray quitting to work for Keir Starmer does cause problems for the civil service – It’s also a sign she thinks he’s heading for government |
Budget 2023: Government needs to show it can jack up growth to regain economic credibility |
The Gary Lineker controversy |
The UK now ranks as one of the most socially liberal countries in Europe |
Dribs, drabs .. or drips? You make the call |
Will the BBC regret suspending Gary Lineker? |
The people who care for and educate our children deserve better pay |
Three years on, the COVID pandemic may never end – but the public health impact is becoming more manageable |
Illegal immigration bill does more than ‘push the boundaries’ of international law |
Victory in Tbilisi: Protesters force ruling party to rescind law threatening Georgia’s EU membership |
Feeling special |
Boris Johnson no longer has the political capital to get away with giving his dad a knighthood |
Oakeshott and Hancock: Betraying a confidential source damages journalism and is a threat to public health |
Government finally publishes missing £248m ventilator contracts and reveals it hired a firm to destroy unused equipment |
Mexico protests: Fears for democracy prompt mass demonstrations |
‘Dear Rishi’ – The code words of British politics |
Good Law Project cannot appeal “Partygate” injustice |
Large numbers of Americans want a strong, rough, anti-democratic leader |
Windsor Framework: British public’s lack of interest in Brexit’s final piece |
Escaping the vicious circle |
Rishi Sunak’s Brexit deal: How the Stormont brake could block new EU laws from Northern Ireland |
Brexit Britain: Grow-your-own-salad country vs start-up nation |
The Government is still “considering” how to improve its Net Zero Strategy with just a month to go |
$1 trillion in the shade – The annual profits multinational corporations shift to tax havens continues to climb and climb |
Why Beijing has decided this is the year to ‘unify’ with Taiwan |
The battle for Britain’s post-Brexit polity |
Is the Marburg virus outbreak in Equatorial Guinea the next pandemic? |
War in Ukraine: Beijing’s peace initiative offers glimpse at how China plans to win the war |
Why supermarkets are rationing food and how to prevent future shortages |
Northern Ireland protocol: Why Tory backbenchers are rebelling over Rishi Sunak’s revised Brexit deal |
A year on, here’s what life has been like for Ukrainian refugees in the UK |
Russia announces its suspension from the last nuclear arms agreement with the US, escalating nuclear tension |
Biden’s visit to Kyiv sets the seal on a year of growing western unity and Russian isolation |
Met gets put on notice: Good Law Project challenges Matt Hancock investigation refusal |
Nicola Sturgeon resigns: The end of an era |
How much immunity do we get from a COVID infection? Large study offers new clues |
The Public Trust Doctrine: An ancient legal principle which could protect our environment now and for future generations |
How Brexitism is eating conservatism |
Nicola Sturgeon resignation: The unanswered questions for Scotland and the SNP she leaves behind |
The difficult sacrifice Biden’s age might force in 2024 |
Mysterious objects shot down over North America: Conflicting reports and speculation abound |
The Conservatives are gunning for our human rights |
Spy balloons: Modern technology has given these old-fashioned eyes in the sky a new lease of life |
Government commits to publishing £248m missing COVID contracts after breaching transparency guidelines |
Should UK transfer fighter jets to Ukraine? Expert urges caution |
Why the UK needs to rethink its decision to stop COVID boosters for young and healthy people |
QAnon is spreading outside the US – A conspiracy theory expert explains what that could mean |
The first Leopard tank arrived in Kyiv |
Three years of failure |
COVID-19 is driving the increasing need for lung transplants in the US |
There’s no delusion like Tory self-delusion |
We’ve got a lot to cover |
Meet your MP — Lee Anderson |
Who is assisting Turkey and Syria with earthquake relief efforts? |
Ukraine’s defence ministry corruption reshuffle marks a painful moment in an agonising war |
Cabinet reshuffle: Science experts react |
How climate change could fare in the UK’s new Department for Energy Security and Net Zero |
Politicians weren’t confident discussing Brexit |
Government deployed callous strategy of instilling shame and stigma to distract from own errors |
Sunak-linked hedge fund sees pandemic profits soar to £109m |
UK slides in corruption perception index after series of political scandals |
Are you ready for Boiled Raisin Cake as the Ukraine war drags on? |
Chinese spy balloon over the US: An aerospace expert explains how the balloons work and what they can see |
A ‘stop Brexit’ sticker and suffragette colours: it’s really not clear what can get you kicked out of parliament |
Brexit : Three years on, lies, deceit and delusion |
So Boris Johnson’s comeback trail, like that of Liz Truss, runs through Washington, DC? |
Untying Brexit’s toxic knots |
Levelling up: How UK freeports risk harbouring international crime |
Truss, who lost longevity battle to a lettuce, is on a comeback trail through Washington, DC |
Your mobile phone runs on Cobalt from DR Congo |
COVID-19 – A look at what happened in 2022 |
President Lula cold-shoulders Chancellor Scholz over sending military aid to Ukraine |
Holyrood’s death by a thousand Tory cuts |
REVEALED: Dominic Raab did use WhatsApp for official business, but Government didn’t retain a copy of his messages |
Labour accepted £12,000 from major polluter Drax |
Why Germany dragged its feet over supplying Leopard tanks to Ukraine |
Nadhim Zahawi sacked: Today’s Tory scandals are similar to 1990s sleaze stories in more than one way |
WHO urges countries to stockpile medicines for ‘nuclear emergencies’ |
Exxon scientists accurately forecast climate change back in the 1970s – What if we had listened to them and acted then? |
Antisemitism isn’t just ‘Jew-hatred’ – it’s anti-Jewish racism |
Why refusing public sector pay rises won’t help reduce inflation |
Mind the gap: HS2 will stop in Central London |
Tory MP to sue Matt Hancock over COVID-19 vaccine remarks |
Strange days |
Tory-linked think tank appoints ‘brazen’ climate denier as director |
Trump Biden documents reveal a true American democracy dysfunction |
Do women really rule the world? |
Majority of Britons say Zahawi must resign as Conservative chairman |
Tories testing the water over a different kind of NHS – Gordon Brown |
The ‘Kraken’ COVID variant XBB.1.5 is rising quickly in the US – Here’s what it could mean for the UK |
All politicians must lie from time to time, so why is there so much outrage about George Santos? |
Jacinda Ardern’s resignation shows that women still face an uphill battle in politics |
Is Jacinda Ardern’s short sharp goodbye a template or a telling sign of the times? |
How the ‘tripledemic’ is restricting cold and flu medicine supplies – and what to do if you’re affected |
Ukraine war: Kremlin’s campaign of misinformation keeps Kyiv and its allies guessing |
Prime Minister’s Quarrelling |
Majority of Britons think UK should maintain support for Ukraine |
How those who want to divide us use language to stoke violence |
Rainforest offset credits likely to be “phantom credits” |
COVID-19: A potential second winter wave? |
WHO: New COVID-19 guidelines on masks, treatments and patient care |
UK government and monarchy must apologise for slavery – Barbados ambassador |
UK government urged to honour its pledge to the families of Afghan refugees |
WHO urges China to provide more details about its COVID outbreak |
Boris Johnson set to publish a memoir of his time as Prime Minister |
Teachers vote overwhelmingly to strike |
NHS crisis: Underlying problems are starting to be addressed |
Starmer: SNP and Tories using Gender Recognition Bill for political advantage |
Decade of progress on making England’s homes safer threatened by austerity and the pandemic |
Why a faint line on a COVID-19 test does not necessarily mean that you are no longer infectious |
MEPs issue formal request to grill EU Commission president von der Leyen over COVID vaccine contracts |
How anti-vaccine misinformation hampers the conversation about genuine vaccine injuries |
UK avoiding a technical recession, not broader economic malaise |
These documents reveal abuses and breakdowns in rogue system of global diplomacy |
Why 2023 is a make-or-break year for Keir Starmer’s Labour party |
How COVID-19 actively suppresses and evades your immune system — Part 1 |
Rishi Sunak’s new law could force workers to break strikes |
How the soap opera around Prince Harry’s memoir will affect the royal brand |
Fragile Democracy |
Another Brexit year begins |
Brazil: Swift and robust response to the insurrection highlights the strength of democracy |
Never take Democracy for granted |
Democracy under attack in Brazil: 5 questions about the storming of Congress and the role of the military |
UK Politics: Tweedledrear and Tweedletrump |
The 2023 election calendar has some big ones |
Six common COVID myths busted by a virologist and a public health expert |
Simple arithmetic with Rishi Sunak |
Politicians are getting older – shutting young people out of decision-making around the world |
Where is the next COVID variant, pi? |
January 6 US Capitol attack: Deep state conspiracies haven’t gone away |
Kevin McCarthy: Why Republicans are preventing their own leader from becoming US speaker |
PMP’s Person of The Year 2022 |
Putin’s plan to stop Ukraine turning to the west has failed – Support for Nato is at an all-time high |
The long-term effects of austerity last for generations |
At Lula’s inauguration, did Bolsonaro ‘eat the last cannibal’? |
Pelé was ensnared by ‘Brazilian-style racism’ but stood firm as dictatorship tried to keep him playing |
What do politicians really think of economists? |
Brexit is slowly being discredited, but there’s still a long way to go |
Why aren’t children allowed to vote? |
COVID in 2023 and beyond – Why virus trends are more difficult to predict three years on |
Voter suppression: How democracies around the world are using new rules to make it harder to vote |
70 years of data suggest the Conservatives will suffer a big defeat at the next election |
He’ll be Congressman, not congressman-ish |
Matt Hancock’s Pandemic Diaries and the history of the redemptive memoir |
Calling politicians ‘clowns’ is a disservice to clowns |
REVEALED: The names of those who referred COVID testing firms into the “VIP” lane |
Christmas should be cancelled in December and moved to February 7 |
Three leadership qualities that Elon Musk’s replacement as Twitter’s CEO will need to have |
Post-Brexit Britain: A country broken by lies |
‘It’s like being in a warzone’ – A&E nurses open up about the emotional cost of working on the NHS frontline |
Why ambulance workers in England and Wales are going on strike |
Twitter has been important for disability activism – That’s being lost under Elon Musk |
World Cup 2022: Who won the prize for ‘soft power’? |
Oyster farm under threat from sewage dumping |
Asylum claim rejections show the UK government has little understanding of what people are fleeing – and it’s costing lives |
Universal free school meals would make a huge difference to the cost-of-living crisis |
There is a better Brexit strategy available to Labour |
What we know about new omicron variant BF.7 |
Six reasons Britain’s impending voter ID law is a bad idea |
Tory donor’s company awarded £4.5 million Government contract to take care of a mountain of unusable PPE waste |
UK strikes: Why the government must start mediating talks, according to negotiation experts |
Electric vehicles: If the UK is serious about being a major player, here’s what needs to happen |
Our politics is incapable of responding to the failure of Brexit |
If Trump is waning, what are his options? |
Mother of teenage girl who took her own life after watching disturbing content online is pleading for change |
Is Labour’s vision of a New Britain any different to the Tories’ levelling up? |
Why bullying in politics is a matter of democracy |
Winter of discontent: How similar is today’s situation? |
Investigation into the B̶r̶e̶x̶i̶t̶ UNBOXED festival |
Biden Rail |
The inevitable backlash |
The Brexit silence is breaking |
Trust in UK politics has taken a hit after recent chaos – and historical data suggests only a change of government can fix it |
Nurses’ strike is about more than pay – It’s about ensuring good care |
Chinese protests are about more than COVID – Student discontent has fuelled the biggest movement since Tiananmen Square |
UK supreme court rules Scotland cannot call a second independence referendum – the decision explained |
Britain is failing the Aid and Reconstruction Complex |
Donald Trump may or may not go away but Trumpism will remain |
Things everyone should know about COVID-19 (Part 2: Transmission & Protection) |
Long COVID stigma may encourage people to hide the condition |
Why UK universities are going on strike |
Bird flu: UK is seeing its largest ever outbreak – which may prove particularly deadly for wild birds |
Generational Gerrymandering? New voter ID requirements will disenfranchise young people |
Labour’s same old waffle on Lords reform |
Erratic Elon |
UK-France migration deal: How does Brexit factor into the plan to stop small boats? |
How Canada plans to break records with its new refugee targets |
An indictment wouldn’t end Trump’s run for the presidency – He could even campaign or serve from a jail cell |
Things everyone should know about COVID-19 (Part 1: Immune System) |
Why COP27 should be the last of these pointless corporate love-ins |
Twitter and Elon Musk: Why free speech absolutism threatens human rights |
How measuring attitudes to climate change could speed up the global response |
It’s Brexit, stupid |
Britain’s energy price cap left many people confused – especially Conservative voters |
Journalist arrests during climate protests show how the demonisation of protest threatens us all |
Resignation honours — What are they, why are they so controversial and can the system ever be changed? |
Wear a mask in public — Successive COVID infections increase health risks, new study |
Just Stop Oil, Rupert Murdoch and the M25 protest |
Creating a spectacle around people seeking asylum generates fear and chaos, not solutions |
Can’t pay? Won’t pay! |
Why some people think fascism is the greatest expression of democracy ever invented |
Post-election thoughts |
COP27: A year on from the Glasgow climate pact, the world is burning more fossil fuels than ever |
The state we are in 2022 |
Deadline looms for new Environment Secretary to respond to legal challenge against sewage dumping |
Zero deforestation in the Amazon is now possible |
China-bashing is being used to normalise mass-disability and loss of life |
COP27: Five things to expect from this year’s UN climate summit |
Braverman’s brutal Britain |
Goodbye Elon, goodbye. |
Britain and Belgium: Asylum crises as Albania slams the UK ‘madhouse’ |
Elon Musk insists he had “no choice” but to fire Twitter employees |
Midterms: Growing number of Americans believe political violence is acceptable |
Just Stop Oil joined thousands demanding a general election and action on the cost of living crisis |
Why Meta’s share price collapse is good news for the future of social media |
Business twit |
Suella Braverman’s colour-coded stance... all red, white and blue |
Enter Sunak, the fifth Brexit Prime Minister |
Is it legitimate for the Conservatives to continue in government without an election? |
This Halloween... trick or debt? |
Scottish independence: How Nicola Sturgeon’s pledge to rejoin the EU could impact a referendum vote |
MPs call for investigation into misuse of funds by a 55 Tufton Street charity |
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak: Who is he and how did he end up with the top job in British politics? |
Do not ignore COVID, experts say |
Rishi Sunak: Best of a bad bunch? |
Do radical protests turn the public away from a cause? |
The five causes of Liz Truss’s downfall explained |
The Tory lettuceship contest |
Why Liz Truss finally lost control of MPs |
Liz Truss becomes the shortest-serving UK Prime Minister |
Liz Truss’s government spewed hate about everyone, including tofu-eating people like me |
What happened in the night of Westminster chaos that triggered the PM’s resignation? |
Is Liz Truss really a symbol of Western democratic resilience as China crowns Xi Jinping? |
Glaciers in the Alps are melting faster than ever – and 2022 was their worst summer yet |
The best hope lies in this government’s hopelessness |
Liz Truss is now a case study in poor leadership |
Liz Truss and the best of British robotic libertarianism |
Why the ‘energy price cap’ is confusing |
This could open the door to fracking |
Liz Truss puts Britain on course to an uncivil war |
No child should be given access to that type of content |
The UK’s Homes for Ukraine scheme is failing both refugees and their hosts |
World Cup 2022: Qatar’s frantic countdown to a football tournament full of controversy |
Cognitive biases and brain biology help explain why facts don’t change minds |
Liz Truss’s unoriginal, unedifying and outdated plan for ‘Growth. Growth. Growth.’ |
What to do if your supplier takes you to court |
Preparing to win the next UK General Election |
Proof it’s the Supreme Court of ideology not a Supreme Court of law |
It’s not your dads’ GOP anymore, and never will be again |
Iran: ‘Hijab’ protests challenge the legitimacy of the Islamic Republic |
The week the wheels came off the Brexit Britain bus |
What Liz Truss’s Conservative party conference speech revealed |
Keir Starmer needs to tell a bolder story about Britain’s future to convince voters to back him |
Liz Truss’s ‘destructive’ plans have angered environmental groups |
When the strong help the weak, it makes us all stronger |
Kamikwasi, Librium Liz and the great British joke factory |
COVID inquiry: the UK government’s pandemic response was often not ‘guided by the science’ – yet now scientists are under fire |
Rats in a sack |
Is removing Liz Truss worth the risk? |
Liz Truss: Are the Conservatives facing an electoral meltdown? |
COVID-19: It looks like we are in for a bad October – Experts |
The Great Tory Merdefest |
Truss’s dead cat splat |
Why Labour will resist calls for electoral alliances, even when facing the prospect of a hung parliament |
The public shouldn’t pay to get the ex-PM off the hook |
Will Keir Starmer lead Labour back into government? |
Strange times |
Why Liz Truss is no Margaret Thatcher when it comes to the economy |
Mini budget 2022: Experts react to the new UK government’s spending and tax-cut plans |
Giorgia Meloni and the return of fascism: How Italy got here |
Back to the other Liz’s world. Shtum, imperious, foxy |
Survey shows Brexit vote has undermined support for the United Kingdom’s union |
Accountability and the prorogation of Parliament |
Children in England turning five will no longer be offered a jab – here’s why that’s bad news |
Putin’s mobilisation speech: what he said and what he meant |
Is it safe yet? |
Putin calls up more troops in Ukraine and threatens nuclear option in a speech which ups the ante but shows Russia’s weakness |
Understanding the rules on energy disconnection and prepayment meters |
Anti-monarchy protesters arrested – What the law says |
Putin’s failure in Ukraine will pave the way for China’s rise to pre-eminence in Eurasia |
Prince of Wales: Why William inheriting the title from Charles has sparked a debate |
What we mean when we say we are mourning Queen Elizabeth for the values she embodied |
There is no escape from history for Britain, its new king and the rest of us |
Notes from Normal-island |
Claiming the welfare benefits you are entitled to |
End of global COVID-19 pandemic in sight — WHO chief |
What Liz Truss’s government means for climate action |
King Charles inherits the crown with support for the monarchy at record low |
How Gorbachev’s fragile legacy of free speech has been destroyed by Putin |
Change and challenges: The rules governing the UK’s new Constitutional Monarchy |
Charles III and the future of the UK monarchy |
Why Charles is already king and other key constitutional questions answered |
Queen Elizabeth II: A moderniser who steered the British monarchy into the 21st century |
Queen Elizabeth II: The end of the ‘new Elizabethan age’ |
These two daunting challenges sit right at the top of the new prime minister’s in-tray |
Is the Truss cabinet’s visual diversity any more than just that? |
4 ways Boris Johnson tested the British parliament to its limits |
PM Liz Truss: A laser-like focus on delivery is needed after the chaos of the Boris Johnson years |
The shortest political honeymoon in history |
Understanding your energy bill support and discounts |
Liz Truss: Who is the UK’s new prime minister and why has she replaced Boris Johnson? |
Tory leadership race: Will Liz Truss’s tax cut proposals win her votes? |
Liz Truss may not appoint an ethics adviser – Does that really matter? |
It’s reassuring that summer was spent wisely planning for the coming COVID winter... or was it? |
Why clean, affordable water should not be in the hands of private companies targeting profit |
Cost of living crisis: The UK needs to raise taxes not cut them |
Channel crossings: No “soundbite” or “three word answer”. |
Will the UK experience blackouts? Three scenarios for this coming winter |
‘Tomato flu’ outbreak in India – Here’s what it really is |
Liz Truss, the last PM of the “big tent” Tory party |
Scotland’s Children’s Commissioner challenges Ofgem to protect children from fuel poverty |
Liz Truss’s Conservative chip pan fire |
‘Ukraine fatigue’? A Ukrainian mother-and-daughter story from London |
Long COVID: Why it’s so hard to tell how many people get it |
UK strikes: How industrial action at a major port could disrupt supplies of clothing, cars and canned food |
Public enemy number one |
What the leadership contest tells us about Brexit |
Misjudgement now could cost the Conservatives dear at the next general election |
Truss is a gift to the cause of Scottish independence |
For GOP, it’s Trump Road whether he runs or not |
Western countries are shipping refugees to poorer nations in exchange for cash |
Influential oil company scenarios for combating climate change don’t actually meet the Paris Agreement goals |
Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak want to crack down on migration – An expert reviews their plans |
Ofgem on notice of court action if it fails to comply with legal duties to protect vulnerable customers |
The ‘new world’ label is 600 years old and needs updating. |
Many people are still shielding from COVID – and their mental health is getting worse. |
New data reveals scale of waiting times for the EU Settlement Scheme. |
Gordon Brown economics versus Liz Truss tax cuts: A new twist in the battle to resolve the UK’s cost of living crisis. |
Salman Rushdie, the man who told stories about India. |
Liz Truss uses leftover vaccine donations to cut up to £300m in foreign aid. |
Context matters – How a teabag went viral for the wrong reasons. |
The jetset tycoon, the Tory council, and the missing £138m of taxpayers’ money. |
This is a cost of corporate greed crisis. |
The last white woman, Liz Truss. |
The return of the Yos! and Oys! – plus a new addition. |
Last week the Axis Of Autocracy was consummated. |
Liz Truss, craving for Vogue and attention. |
Our current COVID vaccines could soon be updated to target new variants. |
Hasta la vista, he wants to come back. |
How the FBI knew what to search for at Mar-a-Lago – and why the Presidential Records Act is an essential tool for future historians. |
New photos suggest how Trump, flush with power, may have sent official documents down the toilet. |
Is race an issue that might explain why Rishi Sunak is doing so badly among Tory members? |
Investigation into the government’s contracts with Randox Laboratories. |
Four ways Brexit and the loss of free movement have made life harder for mixed British-European families. |
Without a fresh new vision, the next Conservative prime minister risks leading their party to election loss. |
How might Labour’s Brexit policy be made to work? |
How teachers supported children and parents through COVID-19 school closures. |
Human rights and Tory wrongs. |
What ethical standards should we hold politicians to? |
How the monkeypox epidemic is likely to play out – in four graphs. |
It’s been 12 long, painful years of Tory governments... |
The Tory chancers trashing the rule of law. |
Monkeypox: An expert explains what we need to know. |
Boris Johnson is a bit like Churchill – but not in the ways he might want. |
How well or badly is the Government doing at responding to the rising cost of energy? |
Why are some so afraid of women, gays, trans, etc? |
Boris Johnson says his time as UK PM was ‘mission largely accomplished’. How does that actually stack up? |
Should I still go on holiday if I have COVID? |
London’s Olympic legacy: Why £2.2 billion investment in primary school PE has failed teachers. |
Truth now banned in government. |
Disability – The farce that is PIP. |
If you voted Tory for any of these 16 reasons, you made a big mistake. |
New revelations about gaps in the Met Partygate investigation. |
No bullsh*t, no exaggeration... American democracy becomes American autocracy in 2023. |
The fall of Boris Johnson: Any democracy should look to his case and ask if it is enabling machiavellian leaders. |
Quick summary of the ERG’s – sorry, your next Prime Minister’s plans for Britain. |
Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss head-to-head to replace Boris Johnson as prime minister – How their prospects compare. |
Rishi Sunak or Liz Truss? Polling shows party members want her – but the wider voting public would choose him. |
Conservative leadership election: Why tax cuts are an economic gamble. |
Boris Johnson’s ignominious end: The difference between ‘big tent’ politics and personalised populism. |
Thousands of Ukrainian children are joining UK schools, but some face issues obtaining school places. |
Elon Musk’s Twitter acquisition: Will he or won’t he? |
Tory leadership hopefuls fail to address the reality that Brexit is a disaster. |
Sri Lanka’s protesters are demanding change. Here’s why. |
Boris Johnson’s claim of a ‘mandate’ from the people isn’t accurate. |
The Uber Files: Leaked documents reveal a strategy of chaos – has anything changed? |
Boris Johnson’s messy political legacy of lies, scandals and delivering Brexit to his base. |
Boris boosterism and bluster won’t keep Brexit Britain’s reality hidden forever. |
Stronger democracies have seen fewer excess deaths during COVID. |
What happens – and when – in the race to replace Boris Johnson. |
Survey shows British people, and especially Tory voters, feel very differently about some refugees than others. |
How the hostile environment is affecting EU citizens. |
What Boris Johnson said in his bitter resignation speech and what he really meant. |
Boris Johnson’s premiership – Worst resignation rate and one of the shortest tenures. |
Boris remade Britain’s image as a mussy-haired wannabe with a slippery sense of propriety. |
Boris Johnson’s nightmare day: How to read between the lines in resignation letters from government ministers. |
Long COVID: Female sex, older age and existing health problems increase risk – new research. |
‘Them’s the breaks’: Boris adopts an American accent. |
Boris Johnson’s reluctant resignation. |
Get Borexit done. |
Boris Johnson: Four key insights from recent polls can help us see where the crisis is heading. |
Boris Johnson: A terminal case of hubris syndrome. |
Pass the popcorn: The Tories are in meltdown. |
Scottish independence: What has changed since the last referendum. |
New Met Police legal action will get to the truth about the PM’s Partygate. |
I believe her. Mostly. |
In Iran, one man exercises complete control for his lifetime. In the US, it’s now six people. |
We shouldn’t be complacent to the potential threat of this, or subsequent COVID waves. |
Well, we are the people and we say yes. |
Government could be forced to come clean over VIP Test and Trace contracts. |
Human disruption to Earth’s freshwater cycle has exceeded the safe limit, our research shows. |
Abortion. Complicated? Or not? |
Wakefield and Tiverton and Honiton by-elections: Even Boris Johnson loyalists will now be worried for the next election. |
The G7 has returned to being a gentlemen’s club. |
The Schools Bill: An attack on home-schooling that hurts children the most. |
Monkeypox may not mutate as fast as coronaviruses, but that doesn’t mean it can’t adapt to its new hosts. |
Northern Ireland protocol row could damage good faith needed for post-Brexit trade deals. |
Brexit is shaming Britain. |
Mapping the world’s refugee population. |
Tiverton and Honiton by-election: Rural communities are itching for the chance to cast a protest vote. |
A peaceful transfer of power in America? Yes, but... |
Commonwealth leaders gather in Rwanda as UK refugee plan focuses attention on human rights. |
Avian flu has jumped from chickens to wild birds and is spreading fast. |
Big Tobacco firms advertising on schools’ doorsteps. |
What Keir Starmer could learn from Neil Kinnock to capitalise on Boris Johnson’s woes. |
What is the European Court of Human Rights, and why did it stop a UK flight from taking off to Rwanda? |
The United States and mass shootings. |
The corrective enlightening power of the Juneteenth holiday. |
After years of breaking the rules, Boris Johnson must now hope his MPs won’t change the only one keeping him in office. |
Brexit is stuck, but is the secret coming out? |
Why the UK government’s plan to change the Northern Ireland Protocol violates international law. |
Government doesn’t know whether it will achieve its 2032 Net Zero target. |
Behind the scenes of Westminster – How government whips are losing their influence. |
The tactics Tory rebels could use to derail Boris Johnson. |
Petition — Introduce an independent body to enforce the ministerial code on ministers. |
Boris Johnson never took full control of the Tory party – uniting it now seems impossible. |
Inflation projections and the War in Ukraine. |
The War in Ukraine puts the brakes on global economic recovery. |
As the Beatles said, I say it’s my birthday. |
Conservative Party – Who are the rebels and why do they want Boris Johnson gone? |
After the confidence vote, what now for ‘Big Dog’? |
EU citizens told they can’t come home using just their European passports. |
The ‘greased piglet’ oinks again (for the time being). |
What the result of the confidence vote means for the PM and the Conservative Party. |
Boris Johnson ‘no-confidence’ vote: What happens next? |
A Tory vote of self-preservation. |
Vote of no confidence in Boris Johnson tonight. |
Ever wondered how the monarchy survives in Britain? |
Vaccination could reduce Long COVID symptoms, new research suggests. |
U.S. gun violence – We have to make it stop. |
COVID vaccines for children under five: What parents need to know. |
Why Britain really can’t afford to cut civil servants right now. |
Boris Johnson’s future: A philosophical exercise for wavering Tory MPs. |
Four reasons the Conservative Party should be worried about Australia’s recent election result. |
Partygate: How the Sue Gray report revealed the age of ‘government by WhatsApp’. |
The graywash. |
Boris Johnson: Why not taking responsibility degrades politics. |
‘Wine time Friday’ and invites for 200 – Five of the most interesting findings from Sue Gray’s partygate report. |
Sue Gray report – Why hasn’t Boris Johnson resigned? |
Senior leadership must bear responsibility – Sue Gray. |
Independence and democracy, or jingoistic authoritarianism. |
Monkeypox – We need to understand more about the transmission dynamics. |
Australia Elections – Scott Morrison defeated, Labor to govern in minority or majority. |
Parliament could burn down any day? Sell it. Turn it into a museum or a posh hotel. |
An MP claimed there’s no massive use for food banks in the UK – the evidence shows why he is wrong. |
Democracy is threatened in many ways. |
Home Office: Loved ones are left in limbo for months on end. |
The English dreaming of Peter Hitchens. |
Whiteness is at the heart of racism in Britain – so why is it portrayed as a Black problem? |
For all the bluster, Johnson and the Brexiters still have no realistic answer to the ‘Northern Ireland border’ question. |
Haven’t had COVID yet? It could be more than just luck. |
Anglo-British nationalism: Greater projection than an iMax screen. |
Help stop the great British public space sell-off. |
All government wants is for asylum seekers to be out of sight out of mind. |
Finland and Sweden’s desire to join Nato shows Putin has permanently redrawn the map of Europe. |
The State pantomime of Parliament. |
How the UK’s plan to send asylum seekers to Rwanda is 21st-century imperialism writ large. |
Government has more interest in allowing vulnerable children to be targeted by traffickers than tackling traffickers. |
Boris Johnson should be very worried about what 2022 local council results mean for the next general election. |
Brexiters are losing the post-Brexit narrative. |
Rooting out racism in schools. |
Russia may declare war on Ukraine on May 9 – and use it as a reason to double down on attacks. |
Long COVID in children is real and serious. There are treatments available... just not in the UK. |
Severe COVID is equivalent to 20 years of ageing. |
True diamonds that we refuse to properly acknowledge. |
Pursuing CSI justice for European citizens. |
Local elections are about the most important issues affecting our daily lives – Why do they always become a referendum on the prime minister? |
A fracking review suggests the UK has softened the precautionary principle since leaving the EU. |
How can Parliament discipline the PM? |
Six years of failure. |
Local elections 2022: Your complete guide to the votes happening across the UK. |
Every ‘journalist’ pushing the Starmer Beergate story must know it to be false. |
Explosive emails revealed at the High Court describe the UK Government’s COVID testing programme. |
Local elections: Survey gives Labour huge lead in London ahead of vote. |
Sinn Féin could become the biggest party in Northern Ireland on May 5 – What it means for power-sharing. |
Johnson’s removal will not alter the British democratic deficit. |
No, decolonising your bookshelf doesn’t mean getting rid of Jane Austen. |
Democracy undermined: How elections in the UK are changing. |
Private emails: It’s not the result we hoped for. |
Sometimes, “We told you so” is all that can be said. |
Meet your MP — Neil Parish |
Angela Rayner, porn in parliament and a depressing week for British politics. |
When it comes to a deadly virus, ignorance is not bliss – Experts. |
The Prime Minister has brought our democracy into disrepute – it’s time to restore some pride. |
The power in front, beside, and behind. |
Emmanuel Macron is reelected but the French are longing for radical change. |
Boris Johnson dragging the Tory Party into the sewer – Angela Rayner. |
Marine Le Pen and Emmanuel Macron go head to head: Why many French voters will be voting against a candidate rather than for them. |
Suffocating democracy in a Tupperware tub. |
COVID in children is not mild. |
Partygate: Is Boris Johnson lying? |
Just Stop Oil: Protests will be even more disruptive if they kick off panic buying. |
Boris Johnson’s bad behaviour: How declining trust in the prime minister affects trust in British democracy. |
Post-Brexit Britain is going rotten. |
Research says Omicron lasts much longer on surfaces than other variants – but disinfecting still works. |
Why we can’t ‘boost’ our way out of the COVID-19 pandemic for the long term. |
Putin’s retaliatory list is a badge of honour. |
Who gets to decide when the pandemic is over? |
Disabled people trapped waiting years for vital home adaptations. |
UN refugee agency ‘firmly’ opposes UK-Rwanda offshore migration processing deal. |
British voters want lying politicians to face consequences. |
People who’ve had COVID appear more likely to develop diabetes. |
Sweden and Finland eye the Nato option, but it’s a security dilemma for the west. |
COVID-19 is an airborne hazard – we need to treat it as such. |
Peek-a-boo Brexit. |
Omicron XE is spreading in the UK – A virologist explains what we know about this hybrid variant. |
Salmonella cases linked to Kinder products. |
Boris Johnson fined by police over partygate. |
As Marine Le Pen makes it to second round, the left-wing vote is what troubles president Emmanuel Macron. |
Should we worry about the XE variant? Maybe not yet, but ‘hybrids’ will become more frequent as COVID evolves. |
Nestle and the business of morality. |
What is a non-dom? |
Economic fallout from Ukraine war could give Le Pen’s social-populist strategy an edge. |
New COVID wave a reminder the pandemic is far from over. |
My five-year-old is now eligible for a COVID vaccine – Should I get them immunised? |
Government tells schools: Dump lateral flow tests. |
Nataliia: “I fear I will never see my husband again.” |
A democratic fix for an increasingly autocratic Supreme Court. |
A telling story about Putin’s state of mind from a European diplomat. |
What game theory can tell us about how Ukraine-Russia negotiations might go. |
Petition — Boris Johnson: Don’t scrap free COVID testing and isolation! |
Confusion abounds. |
Vladimir Putin: A risk-taker who is gambling his country’s future. |
P&O Ferries: How some companies can afford to break the law. |
Caught COVID? What you should and shouldn’t do when self-isolation isn’t mandatory. |
COVID numbers are spiking, yet still no public health messaging. |
None of the Prime Minister’s phone messages prior to April 2021 can be searched. |
No staff turnover at Chornobyl. |
Is Brexit being ‘cancelled’? |
Tories: Displacement of responsibility as a golden rule. |
Prejudice and discrimination masquerading as spiritual support. |
Delaying care now will overburden healthcare much more! |
Reason Johnson is unfit for office number 9,999. |
How Russia is using intellectual property as a war tactic. |
The sacking of 800 P&O staff shows just how precarious UK jobs can be. |
Performative politics is gaslighting post-Brexit Britain. |
What can China do about Ukraine and will it do it? |
Saving pounds vs saving lives. |
It’s time for an end to cronyism. |
The Ukraine War shouldn’t make Americans more appreciative or grateful. |
Ukraine: What might happen if the war spreads to a Nato country. |
As COVID rises again, the UK Government’s only plan is denial and distraction. |
The Home Office’s bureaucracy has been destroying people’s lives for decades. Increasing it isn’t the way forward. |
Four experts examine the big successes and failures of the COVID response so far. |
Ukraine and Brexit: Reminders, lessons and hopes. |
Refugees don’t need visas. |
COVID-19 shrinks our brains – PM: Nothing to see here... Freedom day! |
Ukraine: The UK is failing to meet its obligations under the 1951 Refugee Convention. |
COVID doesn’t affect kids? |
EU as a Line of Defense for Ukraine? |
Bear faced hypocrisy. |
Uptake of children’s COVID vaccines is low in the UK – and their slow, confused approval is to blame. |
Covid isn’t over. |
To avoid an American war, Ukraine must be Poland, not the Rhineland. |
Ukraine – It’s all about one person. |
Refugee protection means more than just saying words of support. |
Russian opposition to the invasion of Ukraine is giving Putin cause for alarm. |
An open letter to Tucker Carlson. |
The dogs that caught the car. |
The best-laid plans of mice and men... and Putin and his gold. |
As Putin puts nuclear forces on high alert, here are 5 genuine nuclear dangers for us all. |
Ukraine’s military is outgunned but can still inflict a great deal of pain on Russian forces. |
Sanctions can still make a difference – but only if done right. |
It’s time to fight Putin! – Garry Kasparov. |
Iceland: Mass infection will lead to mass disability – Experts. |
Why we must talk about ‘protections’ being lifted, not ‘restrictions’. |
Eight changes the world needs to make to live with COVID. |
Mugged by reality. |
For Russia, it’s all alt... even its tsar. |
“Make Brexit Work” is the only way forward right now. |
Lifting all restrictions. The lunatics really are in charge. – Experts. |
COVID: Lifting the remaining measures is a dangerous and senseless move. |
British nationalism means power is never held to account. |
Royal finances – Our money and theirs. |
Time for the UK to say goodbye to drive-throughs for the sake of our environment, our health, and our culture. |
Are Trump’s followers standing back and ready again? |
High Court rules Dido Harding and Mike Coupe appointments were unlawful. |
How the Home Office spends money hurting people. |
UK-Russia – You can have freedom or corruption, not both. |
The world pre-2020 no longer exists. |
PM resignation – A show of hypocrisy. |
Boris Johnson exposes the weakness at the heart of a ‘good chaps’ rule of government. |
Cost of living crisis – Historical evidence suggests voters could quickly turn against Tories. |
Our meat obsession is destroying the planet – The solution is to change how we see animals. |
Lifting self-isolation, a profound mistake. Again. – Experts. |
Russia, Ukraine, Schrodinger’s cat and our interconnected world. |
How warfare language is being used to demonise asylum seekers. |
4 key takeaways from the ‘partygate’ investigation into Boris Johnson’s Downing Street. |
Vulnerable children are still waiting for vaccination, and many are being infected while they wait. |
Boris Johnson pledges to ‘fix’ Downing Street after partygate – but this is a failure of his leadership. |
Legal advice: Government can’t ban the use of facemasks in schools. |
Westminster: Where it’s a bigger sin to call out a liar for lying than it is to lie. |
All too predictable. |
The Sue Gray report. |
Vaccinate the kids! |
‘All the world’s somewhat corrupt and men and women merely players.’ |
Do not oversimplify Long COVID. |
The Week in Tory – Friday 28 Jan. |
Boris Johnson polling is now so bad that it makes sense for Conservative MPs to get rid of him. |
England’s plan B restrictions are lifting – but are some measures here to stay? |
Some surprising actors want the Yankees in their backyard. |
Partygate, populism and Brexit. |
Don’t believe the claim that only 17,371 people have died from COVID in England and Wales. |
President Biden. A ‘meh’ first year? |
Johnson is a symptom of a chronically sick Westminster. |
Boris Johnson: Sue Gray’s report may prove the final straw for angry Conservative MPs. |
Lockdown schooling: Research from across the world shows reasons to be hopeful. |
A linguist analyses Boris Johnson’s apology. |
Will Truss press the re-set button? |
Where (and how) you are most likely to catch COVID. |
Removing all restrictions clearly isn’t guided by the science – Experts. |
COVID-19 SAGE update, 13 Jan 2022. |
‘In the name of God, go’: The history of a speech that has brought down parliament and a prime minister. |
How to oust a Tory leader: The rules explained. |
Face-coverings to remain a condition of carriage on TfL – Sadiq Khan. |
COVID-19 SAGE update, 7 Jan 2022. |
Nobody told me this was against the rules – Boris Johnson. |
Omicron: Viral load can be at its highest at day five so cutting isolation period doesn’t make sense. |
How dare scientists do something to prevent more deaths in the UK! |
Trapped between a rock and a party place. |
Downing Street party: What the law actually said about work gatherings in May 2020. |
Is the party over for Boris Johnson? This polling detail suggests it could well be. |
Boris Johnson’s Downing Street party apology: Three key takeaways. |
Brexiters now worry about the judgment of history. |
What are the symptoms of omicron? |
How to make sense of the UK’s new testing rules. |
A consultant anaesthetist who refuses to take a vaccine? |
You don’t end a pandemic simply by declaring it over. |
UK bird flu outbreak: Risk of wider infection in the general public remains low. |
Capitol assault: The real reason Trump and the crowd almost killed US democracy. |
Why transmission among the triple-vaxxed shouldn’t alarm you. |
Home Office’s flawed and dangerous “scientific assessments” put children claiming asylum at risk. |
Schools are stuck in 2020 too. |
Masks in schools is not a matter of opinion. It works. |
Brexit returns to its roots. |
Life after COVID: Most people don’t want a return to normal – they want a fairer, more sustainable future. |
The NHS and social care are beyond full stretch. |
21st century Britain: Still the ‘emancipated empire’? |
Latest COVID 🦠 |
Far too early to say we don’t need to worry about omicron and hospitalisations. |
This Christmas we managed to frighten ourselves into deep gloom. |
Omicron is likely to hit deprived areas the hardest. |
The meaning of Christmas, according to Natalie. |
Omicron. The worst part of the pandemic before it ends in 2022. – Bill Gates. |
Omicron: What the next few weeks will look like. |
Thoughts on a dreadful year. |
Brexit: What the UK/EU customs changes mean for businesses from January 1. |
On the Imperial College study on Omicron severity. |
COVID: How the disease moves through the air. |
How much trouble is Boris Johnson in? |
Omicron – Your questions answered. |
We have learned from our mistakes... in order to repeat them. |
Home Office sued for breach of the Withdrawal Agreement. |
Stripping British citizenship: The government’s new bill explained. |
Conservative MP rebellion: ‘Human rights’ opposition to new COVID measures doesn’t add up. |
Not my Brexit. |
In Tory Britain, you never know what will happen yesterday. |
A moral vacuum... on either side of the English Channel? |
Who do we not save? |
When will life return to normal after the pandemic? |
The new German government and Berlin’s new role in the world. |
Thank you for writing to your MP about physical proof of status. |
This virus has got so many surprises in store for us. |
Why the UK government’s plan to overturn court decisions is a bad idea. |
Debunking key myths about Britain’s ‘broken asylum system’. |
Downing Street Christmas party: Four key takeaways from the leaked Allegra Stratton video. |
A year of COVID vaccines: how the UK pinned its hopes on the jab – and why those hopes are under threat. |
Will Omicron be more contagious than Delta? A virus evolution expert explains what researchers know and what they don’t. |
Brexit discredited. |
Labour reshuffle: Keir Starmer’s shadow cabinet exudes confidence – but the party’s left has been shut out. |
Reintroducing masks in England may be met with resistance – Here’s how the government can overcome it. |
COVID-19 — Sick of dating. |
Why the WHO designated Omicron a variant of concern. |
The joke isn’t funny anymore. |
The rise of Omicron – The consequences of not acting early could be devastating. |
How Omicron was found and what we know so far. |
Meat-eating is a big climate issue – but isn’t getting the attention it deserves. |
Omicron variant – Signs so far suggest the potential threat is high. |
Asylum seekers crossing the Channel – Stop the BS! |
Examining the financial sustainability of mainstream schools in England. |
The perfect figurehead for a corrupt and unreformable Westminster. |
‘I don’t feel like a person anymore’ – The emotional side of claiming universal credit. |
A pause to reflect. |
Falsification of biological results led to the conclusion that hydroxychloroquine works – Professor Raoult staff admit. |
Brexit. Assessing the mood in Stratford-upon-Avon. |
It’s the newspapers’ fault if Boris Johnson was pictured on a train maskless – Business minister. |
COVID never left. Now, it’s firmly back on the agenda. |
Sleaze: Why Boris Johnson is being reminded of the lurid scandals of 1990s Britain. |
85 minutes as president – Kamala Harris’ place in history. |
Look at me! |
Trade war looms over article 16 – The Northern Ireland protocol safeguard, explained. |
Novavax COVID vaccine is nearing approval – What impact will it have? |
The dictator returns — through his spawn. |
Welcome to Brexit 2.0. |
Meta-holidays... |
Around the wards in 80 days. |
Corruption: How the UK compares to other countries. |
The moral vacuum that is Johnson’s Westminster. |
Either we kill coal or coal will kill us. |
Belarus: Border crisis with Poland loses sight of the people trapped in the middle. |
Owen Paterson’s role in Brexit. |
Five things you need to know about the Glasgow Climate Pact. |
COP26 – Why politicians have little incentive to prepare for future climate change disasters. |
Claims of COP26’s success have been unpicked – but political journalists have repeated the spin. |
I interviewed Richard Ratcliffe about his hunger strike: Here’s how it’s affecting him. |
The handling of the Owen Paterson case is a danger to the entire fabric of British politics. |
And the beat goes on... |
Where stands support for Brexit now? |
63% think MPs should not be allowed to work outside of their parliamentary roles. |
More work needed to resolve Northern Ireland’s Brexit position – watchdog. |
Fishy arguments. |
Vaccine trial misconduct allegation – Could it damage trust in science? |
Shining a light on Tory dark money. |
That subtle racism. |
Shipping emissions must fall by a third by 2030 and reach zero before 2050. |
Trump-lite is flavour of the month. |
Would a longer school day help children catch up after the pandemic? |
Covid in the UK is the worst it has ever been. What’s the government doing? |
Overseas trade has a hidden environmental ‘disaster footprint’. |
A Democratic wake-up call. |
COP26: Here’s how much progress the UK has made on three key net zero pledges. |
70% say pupils at secondary schools should wear masks. |
Wanted: A serious post-Brexit policy. |
Increased COVID restrictions in the UK look inevitable as winter arrives. |
The NHS is in trouble. It needs our help and support now. |
COVID-19 cases rise when schools open – but more so when teachers and students don’t wear masks. |
“We are now storing up trouble for the future” – Experts. |
Long COVID and why choosing to expose children to infection rather than vaccinate them is negligent and harmful. |
Blowing bubbles is dangerous for children. |
We trust grown-ups to protect us, but they are doing the opposite of protecting us — concerned children. |
Our forgotten children will suffer most from Covid being let rip – again. |
How long do COVID vaccines take to start working? |
The 2021 Spring Budget. |
Children may transmit coronavirus at the same rate as adults – What we now know about schools and COVID-19. |
Coronavirus: Is this the moment of maximum risk? |
How Germany is managing its coronavirus epidemic, and reacting with disdain to Trump’s policies. |
Brits fighting to retain their EU passports and their citizens’ rights. |
Pathological power: The danger of governments led by narcissists and psychopaths. |
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